Driver of the Season

Posted on January 22, 2010
Moritz Weiss

After Kevin Pearce, Danny Davis is ne next Olympic rider of the US Team who is out of the race....

SALT LAKE CITY -- Snowboarder Danny
Davis has been admitted to a Utah
hospital with a back injury he endured
in a non-snowboarding accident.

Davis was likely to make the U.S.
Olympic team in halfpipe. He was
admitted to the hospital after an ATV
accident on Sunday morning, the day
after he won the Winter Dew Tour
halfpipe contest at Snowbasin in Utah.

Davis underwent surgery Monday to
repair an L3 spine fracture resulting
from the accident. He is expected to
make a full recovery, but will not
compete in any remaining snowboarding
events this season.

Davis is good friends with Kevin
Pearce, the snowboarder who was
injured Dec. 31 in practice and is in
a Salt Lake City hospital in serious
condition with a head injury.

About a week after Pearce's injury,
Davis won a Snowboarding Grand Prix
event in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. He won
with what is already being regarded as
one of the best halfpipe runs in the
history of the sport -- a performance
he dedicated to Pearce.